Elle Lipedema Fit

24/10/2026

Life with Lipedema is bloody hard.

The girl on the left struggled with everything - going up stairs, training and even just walking made me exhausted. It felt like I had huge chains around my legs and ankles.

Lipedema changed my entire posture and gait and slowed my mobility massively.

The girl on the right is doing things 4 years later that the old me would have laughed at hysterically.

Yes I had Lipedema surgery, this was just the start of my journey. . Its not too late ladies 💜

Coach Elle

22/10/2026

10 signs you may be estrogen dominant and how it can cause Lipedema symptoms to become worse.

How many of these do you have?

1. Heavy or irregular painful periods (clotting, cramping, flooding)
2. Worsening ADHD\PMDD symptoms
3. Tender, achey or dense feeling breasts
4. Increases mood swings, anxiety, or irritability
5. Low libido
6. Excess fat storage in hips, thighs, and lower body (which overlaps with Lipedema patterns)
7. Difficulty losing body fat
8. Bloating or water retention
9. Waking up at 3am and trouble falling asleep
10. Lipedema swelling/pain worse around period week

You may have not even be estrogen dominant you may have poor estrogen clearance. Remember too Lipedema tissue is it’s own little estrogen factory irrespective of what your ovaries are making.

22/10/2026

Finally some more media on Lipoedema for New Zealand. I have been writing to News Paper publications for years to spread awareness, glad Lipoedema it is finally being taken more seriously!

For decades, Alison Sinclair was told that she was too fat and had to lose weight. Then a serious car accident led to a surprise diagnosis that changed her life.

🔗To subscribe and read more, follow the link below.

https://nz-listener.visitlink.me/5ZdNiw

17/10/2026

Women with Lipedema think that it does not respond to diet and exercise, well as a woman with lipedema and over 100kg I beg to differ. After Lipedema surgery (left) I was still unhappy with how I felt and looked. I dedicated an entire 12 months to supporting the stroma - the house your fat lives in with strength training and the right nutrition for me.

Ladies it can be done it just takes time.

The biggest failure I see as a coach is women getting frustrated after a month of no changes and they give up and go back to their old patterns.

To change this we have to view women with Lipedema as highly sensitive and so it makes sense to work from a specific framework. I developed the Elle Lipedema Fit Neuro-Immuno-Metabolic Protocol™ for this very reason. So you can see how your history, blood work and comorbidities with Lipedema impact not only how you look but how you feel and start addressing it.

I have my 12 week beginner strength training guide available on gumroad https://ellelipedemafit.gumroad.com/l/uyzjzu

with dozens of other FREE resources.

Or talk to me about my exclusive 12 month transformation coaching.

16/10/2026

I have been talking about bi-directional drivers for a long time now and how it is very hard to cure Lipedema without recognising the role LPS bacteria play in this disease.

What’s new is the middle of that diagram: Fascia & Telocytes.
Early (animal) research is showing our fascia isn’t just wrapping, it is packed with CD34+ cells that sense mechanical load, and in the gut wall, rare cells called telocytes with super-long arms called cytonemes deliver Wnt signals directly to gut stem cells to help repair the lining.

So the mechanical state of our mesentery and abdominal fascia MIGHT directly talk to gut renewal.

For women with lipedema who also have hypermobility, this could help explain why GI issues are so common and why that low-grade inflammatory loop is so sticky.

Lax connective tissue + altered motility = more dysbiosis → more LPS (lipopolysaccharide) translocation → more systemic inflammation → more fibrosis in fascia and fat → less fascial glide → poorer gut support.

It doesn’t mean fascia work “cures” gut or lipedema, it’s a sign science is catching up to reframe fascia as a communication system (which most of us have already figured out).

Comment ‘Fascia’ and I will send you the research paper and my diagram.

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Reference
Shyer et al. Science 2023 / Science 2024 - telocytes as Wnt source for intestinal crypts; Cadinu et al. 2024 - fascial CD34+ network; 2026 preprint data linking fascial mechanical input to epithelial repair.

14/10/2026

In my very unique position as a specialised lipedema coach who has coached over 100 women with lipedema, I see a common theme in blood work.

Good ferritin stores. Low circulating iron. Persistently low vitamin D. Elevated neutrophils.

This loop is driving lipedema for many women and it gets missed because ferritin alone looks “fine.”
But Ferritin is storage and serum iron and % saturation is what’s actually available.

The Loop: When neutrophils are elevated, inflammation is up, hepcidin is up, and iron gets trapped.

Your mitochondria need AVAILABLE iron and vitamin D to make energy and when they can’t get it, you get the exhaustion, pain and lipedema progression no one can explain.

This is why we need to go upstream to figure out why your body won’t release it. To me Lipedema is a symptom of a much deeper energy dysfunction.

Have you seen this pattern? Good ferritin but low iron + low D?

Save this to discuss with your GP 💜

14/10/2026

Women with Lipedema need to know that estrogen helps regulate dopamine, so when estrogen drops in perimenopause/menopause, ADHD symptoms that were manageable for decades can turn loud and constant. This is why women get to 47 and think they're losing it.. but they aren’t as nothing broke, really it’s the chemistry that was holding it all together started leaving.

This is what I do as a coach - put all the pieces of your unique puzzle together and get results.

Elle

12/10/2026

Katie has officially graduated with A+ flying colours off the Elle Lipedema Fit programme. She started as a supportive acquaintance to now one of my best friends and we have launched something massive for New Zealand Lipoedema Community together.

When I say I could not be more proud of her, I mean it.. alot of this journey was trial and error when I did more crazy experiments and Katie was always 100% trusting and supportive of what I wanted her to do with both training and nutrition even if it seemed nuts. In terms of mindset I could not ask for a more determined, positive and intelligent woman to have the privilege of coaching.

My clients keep showing me everyday what is possible with this disease

Elizabeth Katie Keep shining and managing Lipoedema for life, miss yah already⭐️